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Public Server Only Works On Localhost

Hey guys,
So im at a loss here. My windows server runs 100% and my to log in from multiple computers (differnt internet). But my debian linux install will not. I installed debian into a vmware virtual machine and have everything set up. My server shows up on the server selection screen and I can log on using the windows partition of that camputer (one with vmware running linux), but I cannot log on to my server using another computer (a computer which can log on to any other server). It just cycles back to the log in screen after several minutes.

Here is some stuff I can think of that might help find the problem:
eqemu_config.xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0">

<server>

        <world>

                <!-- Set the shortname to ONE word. The longname is what shows up on server list -->

                <shortname>EQLite</shortname> 

                <longname>EQLite [In Development Non-Playable]</longname>



                <!-- DO NOT EDIT ANY LINES BETWEEN HERE AND THE DATABASE SECTION -->

                <!-- <address>do.not.edit</address> -->

                <!-- <localaddress>do.not.edit</localaddress> -->



                <!-- Loginserver information.  DO NOT EDIT -->

                <loginserver>

                        <host>eqemulator.net</host>

                        <port>5998</port>

                        <account></account>

                        <password></password>

                </loginserver>



                <!-- Server status.  Default is unlocked DO NOT EDIT RIGHT NOW -->

                <!--<locked/>-->

                <!-- <unlocked/> -->



                <!-- Sets the ip/port for the tcp connections.  DO NOT EDIT -->

                <tcp ip="localhost" port="9000" telnet="disable"/>



                <!-- Sets the shared key used by zone/launcher to connect to world -->

                <key>somelongrandomstring12345</key>

                

                <!-- Enable and set the port for the HTTP service.  Defaults are shown -->

                <http port="9080" enabled="false" mimefile="mime.types" />

        </world>



        <!-- Chatserver (channels) information.  DO NOT EDIT -->

        <chatserver>

                <host>channels.eqemulator.net</host>

                <port>7778</port>

        </chatserver>



        <!-- Mailserver (in-game mail) information.  DO NOT EDIT -->

        <mailserver>

                <host>channels.eqemulator.net</host>

                <port>7779</port>

        </mailserver>

        

        <zones>

                <!-- The defaultstatus is what status the new toons will have on your server -->

                <defaultstatus>0</defaultstatus>



                <!-- Sets port range for world to use to auto configure zones DO NOT EDIT RIGHT NOW-->

                <ports low="7000" high="7100"/>

        </zones>



        <!-- Set username to root and password is your MySQL password and db to peq -->

        <database>

                <host>localhost</host>

                <port>3306</port>

                <username>root</username>

                <password>password</password>

                <db>peq</db>

        </database>



        <!-- Launcher Configuration DO NOT EDIT-->

        <launcher>

                <!-- <logprefix>logs/zone-</logprefix> -->

                <!-- <logsuffix>.log</logsuffix> -->

                <!-- <exe>zone.exe</exe> -->

                <!-- <timers restart="10000" reterminate="10000"> -->

        </launcher>



        <!-- File locations.  DO NOT EDIT -->

        <files>

                <!-- <spells>spells_us.txt</spells> -->

                <!-- <opcodes>opcodes.conf</opcodes> -->

                <!-- <logsettings>log.ini</logsettings> -->

                <!-- <eqtime>eqtime.cfg</eqtime> -->

        </files>

        <!-- Directory locations.  DO NOT EDIT -->

        <directories>

                <!-- <maps>Maps</maps> -->

                <!-- <quests>quests</quests> -->

                <!-- <plugins>plugins</plugins> -->

        </directories>

</server>

my start/stop persist world

Code:

cat > start << EOD6

#!/bin/bash

# Auto generated by EQEmu Installer v$EQEMU_INSTALLER_VER on $EQEMU_INSTALL_DATE



# Include our configuration.

#source eqemu.conf



#ulimit -c 99999999



# Start the login server.

if [ \$USE_LOGIN_SERVER ]; then

  ./EQEmuLoginServer 2>&1 > logs/loginserver &

fi



# Remove any shutdown files.

rm -f .zone_shutdown

rm -f .world_shutdown



# Print commands and their arguments as they are executed.

set -x



# Launcher name.

LNAME="zone"

if [ "\$1" = "test" ]; then

  LNAME="test"

fi



# Set our library path.

P=`pwd`

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:\$P"



# Make sure we have a place to log.

mkdir -p logs 2>&1 > /dev/null



# Clear out old logs, if both are stopped.

if [ ! -e .lock-zones -a ! -e .lock-world ] ; then

  for f in logs/eqemu_*.log

  do

    # Keep the commands_zone log.

    if [ "\$f" = "logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log" ]; then

      continue;

    fi

    rm -f \$f

  done

fi



# Boot up world.

if [ ! -e .lock-world ] ; then

  # Create our lock file.

  touch .lock-world

  

  # Determine how to run the world server.

  if [ \$USE_PERSIST_WORLD ]; then

    ./persist_world 2>&1 > logs/world &

  else

    ./world 2>&1 > logs/world &

  fi

  

  # wait for shared memory to load

  sleep 15

fi



# Start up the official launcher.

if [ ! -e .lock-launcher ]; then

  # Create our lock file.

  touch .lock-launcher

  

  # Launch!

  ./eqlaunch \$LNAME 2>&1 > logs/launcher &

fi



# Determine if we should start the chat server.

if [ \$USE_CHAT_SERVER ]; then

  ./chatserver 2>&1 > logs/chatserver &

fi



# Determine if we should start the mail server.

if [ \$USE_MAIL_SERVER ]; then

  ./mailserver 2>&1 > logs/mailserver &

fi

EOD6

Code:

cat > stop << EOD7

#!/bin/bash

# Auto generated by EQEmu Installer v$EQEMU_INSTALLER_VER on $EQEMU_INSTALL_DATE



# Include our configuration.

#source eqemu.conf



# Create our shutdown files.

touch .zone_shutdown

touch .world_shutdown



targets="world eqlaunch zone"



# Login Server Check

if [ \$USE_LOGIN_SERVER ]; then

  targets="\$targets EQEmuLoginServer"

fi



# Chat Server Check

if [ \$USE_CHAT_SERVER ]; then

  targets="\$targets chatserver"

fi



# Mail Server Check

if [ \$USE_MAIL_SERVER ]; then

  targets="\$targets mailserver"

fi



killall \$targets



# Small pause here.

sleep 3



# If world/zone/eqlaunch is stuck we'll 'kill -9' them here.

if ps ax | grep -e 'w[o]rld' -e 'z[o]ne' -e 'eq[l]aunch' > /dev/null; then

  killall -9 world zone eqlaunch

  sleep 2

fi



# Run our IPC cleaning.

./cleanipc



# Remove any lock files.

rm -f .lock-zones .lock-world .lock-login .lock-launcher

EOD7

Code:

cat > persist_world << EOD8

#!/bin/bash



#ulimit -c 99999999



while true

do

  ./world "\$@"

  if [ -r ".world_shutdown" ]; then

    exit 0

  fi



  echo `date` " - World crashed." >> crashlog

  sleep 2

done

EOD8

what sudo ./start looks like

Code:

+ LNAME=zone

+ '[' '' = test ']'

+ P=/home/eqemu/server

+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/home/eqemu/server

+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/home/eqemu/server

+ mkdir -p logs

+ '[' '!' -e .lock-zones -a '!' -e .lock-world ']'

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_debug_3629.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_debug_3629.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_debug_4050.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_debug_4050.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_debug_world.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_debug_world.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_debug_zone.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_debug_zone.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_quest_zone.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_quest_zone.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_world.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_world.log

+ for f in 'logs/eqemu_*.log'

+ '[' logs/eqemu_zone.log = logs/eqemu_commands_zone.log ']'

+ rm -f logs/eqemu_zone.log

+ '[' '!' -e .lock-world ']'

+ touch .lock-world

+ '[' ']'

+ sleep 15

+ ./world

Any help would be highly appreciated!
Sikkun

How about some log outputs from the login/world/zone - whatever stages you pass through.

Also I saw that the address/localaddress fields are commented out, I am not sure linux will be as friendly as windows when it comes to recognizing the interface to use.

It is almost certainly that you have this:

Quote:

<tcp ip="localhost" port="9000" telnet="disable"/>

When you are installing behind a firewall (with a local LAN IP address) you will have to set this to your public IP. Now, you may or may not have a router, but I'm assuming your VM is on a private (192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 10.x.x.x or similar) IP address and will need to have this set.

It would make sense that your windows box could connect to the server on the VM (local address to local address) but the VM wont send the proper (public) IP address back out to the EQ clients until you fix this. If you have a dynamic IP, you'll have to change it each time it updates.

Hope that helps,

-orkim

So I tried changing my .xml to (ip I got from sudo ifconfig)

Code:

<tcp ip="192.168.158.128" port="9000" telnet="disable"/>

which gets me log files all the way up to starting the 5 zones.

Code:

---------------------------------------------

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_world.log

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [COMMON__THREADS] Starting TCPServerLoop with thread ID -1223058576

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [COMMON__THREADS] Starting TCPServerLoop with thread ID -1231451280

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Loading server configuration..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Log settings loaded from log.ini

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEmulator 0.8.0

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Added loginserver eqemulator.net:5998

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Connecting to MySQL...

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] HTTP world service disabled.

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Loading variables..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Loading zones..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [COMMON__THREADS] Starting DBAsyncLoop with thread ID -1241515152

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Clearing groups..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Clearing raids..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:07] [WORLD__INIT] Loading items..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Loading guilds..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [GUILDS__ERROR] Found rank 0 for non-existent guild 1, skipping.

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [GUILDS__ERROR] Found rank 1 for non-existent guild 1, skipping.

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [GUILDS__ERROR] Found rank 2 for non-existent guild 1, skipping.

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Loaded default rule set 'default'

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Clearing temporary merchant lists..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Loading EQ time of day..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Loading launcher list..

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Reboot zone modes ON

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Deleted 0 stale player corpses from database

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Deleted 0 stale player backups from database

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Loading adventures...

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT] Purging expired instances

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Failed to start zone (TCP) listener on port 9000:

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [WORLD__INIT_ERR]         bind(): <0

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [COMMON__THREADS] Ending TCPServerLoop with thread ID -1231451280

6558 [05.24. - 01:20:09] [COMMON__THREADS] Ending TCPServerLoop with thread ID -1223058576

but now no one can log onto my server. Any ideas on how to get the proper ip to change the config to?

That is a private IP address. Anything (172.16.x.x, 192.168.x.x, 169.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x, etc) that is a private address is not going to work if you're trying to connect to it via the internet.

Go get your public address. If you do not know how to get it from your router/modem then use a public site like http://whatismyipaddress.com/ or one of the hundred other ones of your choice.

However, I did hastily read your post and cut/paste the wrong section. Put your entry back to 'localhost' for the <tcp> tag and update these:

Quote:

The <address> tag will contain your public address. This is passed to the login server and when a user connects successfully, it will tell it to connect to your server at this address (your public internet address). The <localaddress> is what will be used internally and passed to your zone servers. It may seem funky, but its due to the fact that you're server isn't accessible publicly, but through a router/bridge/something else/etc. because of your setup.

More info here: http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...tion#addresses

You *will* need to set these. =)

Beyond that, you're talking about ports being forwarded properly, and that you don't have the router/modem, windows firewall, virtualization software itself, or linux firewall in the way. Ports could be blocked anywhere down that chain.

Try that, and get back,

-orkim

Hey,

So I'm trying:

Code:

<address>97.143.11.53</address> 

<localaddress>192.168.158.128</localaddress>

which is adress = ip from whatsmyip (in linux box)
and localaddress - sudo ifconfig (in linux box)

changed the other one back to localhost.

Now im back to the orginal problem =( can log on from the local host but not from any other computer.

I also tried this using 0 firewalls on both computers.

I almost want to say the problem is because im using a evdo 3g air card, but seeing that has no problem allowing users to connect on windows it has to be something in the config.

Alo my Vmware only lets me connect to the internet using NAT (to share the ip with my host) not sure if that coule be a problem.

Thanks,
Sikkun

You should now be able to connect to your server from the internet. Have a friend, or someone outside your LAN, confirm that they can connect. I do not see why a 3g card would be an issue as long as your connection is outside the LAN the eqemu server is running on.

If not, it must be ports that are not forwarded properly. Port 9000, and all zone ports (viewable in the database) must be forwarded.

Can you confirm this works?

Currently you can not log onto the server outside of the lan.

I have a feeling it has something to do with Vmware's NAT connection, I don't know if there is anyone that has there server running on vmware that has any hints??

Ok so I moved my computer to an actual network just to see what would happen. I have the ports 7000-7100 and 9000 forwarded on the router and my Windows server lets people outside of the LAN connect.

Vmware Linux on the other hand...grrr

I have the vmware set to a bridged connection and I made my Ip (Windows) static.

if I do a ipconfig (Windows) I'm told my ip is: 192.168.2.150
if I do a ifconfig (Linux) I'm told my ip is: 192.168.2.5
whats my ip on both gives me: 70.126.158.125

my eqemuconfig:

Code:

<!-- DO NOT EDIT ANY LINES BETWEEN HERE AND THE DATABASE SECTION -->



                 <address>70.126.158.125</address>

                   <localaddress>192.168.2.5</localaddress> 



                <!-- Loginserver information.  DO NOT EDIT -->

                <loginserver>

                        <host>eqemulator.net</host>

                        <port>5998</port>

                        <account></account>

                        <password></password>

                </loginserver>



                <!-- Server status.  Default is unlocked DO NOT EDIT RIGHT NOW -->

                <!--<locked/>-->

                <!-- <unlocked/> -->



                <!-- Sets the ip/port for the tcp connections.  DO NOT EDIT -->

                <tcp ip="localhost" port="9000" telnet="disable"/>



                <!-- Sets the shared key used by zone/launcher to connect to world -->

                <key>somelongrandomstring12345</key>

                

                <!-- Enable and set the port for the HTTP service.  Defaults are shown -->

                <http port="9080" enabled="false" mimefile="mime.types" />

and so on. I can see the server listed from computers outside of the LAN but they just go back to the login screen after a minute of trying to connect.

Unless im missing what you are trying to get me to do completely, I believe vmware is blocking something...just have no clue how to get it to stop.

Your ports on your router are forwarded to 192.168.2.5?

Or are they forwarded to 192.168.2.150?

I forwarded them to 150

Well, that's a problem. Forward them to the linux VM. 192.168.2.5

-orkim

Haha, it worked!!

=)

Now I assume if I set up the NAT to forward just like I did on the router (when using the air card) it would work on that. But since im about to have real internet getting it to work over an ethernet connection is more important anyway.

Thank you very much for all your help!
Sikkun

Congrats on getting past that first major hurdle. Good luck with your project.

Between my firestarter (linux), kersplersky (windows), and my routers firewall any other tips for keeping my server safe?